Specific term required. A “hybrid” tradition of these objects thrived in Martaban, whose nakhodas contracted them to kiwis in a commenda system regulated by Sultan Mahmud Shah’s code. “Commoner’s” types of these objects were contrasted with those from official bureaus, whose Muslim superintendent Pú Shòugēng (“poo sho-gung”) offered them to invading Mongols. Nomads who relied on these objects were stigmatized as “egg families,” or Tanka. Guǎngdōng’s “Crystal Palace” exhibits one of these objects from the Southern Sòng, when they and smaller sampans were made impervious with tung oil putty for the Silk Routes between Quánzhōu (“chwen-joh”) and Nánhǎi (“nahn-hye”). These objects were burned by 1525 to enforce a series of anti-wōkòu (“woh-koh”) bans. 30,000 troops staffed one of the six imposing groups of them dispatched by the Yǒnglè (“yohng-luh”) Emperor. For 10 points, what vessels with watertight bulkheads and battened rigs included Zhèng Hé’s (“jung huh’s”) “treasure ships”? ■END■
ANSWER: junks [or chuán, ch’uan, kó͘-chûn, jong, djong, juang, junco, junques, joṅ, çoncho, or other variants; accept lorchas, kora-koras, Kūnlún bó, K’un-lun po, hǎibó, haipo, bǎochuán, gǔchuán, mínchuán, guānchuán, shāchuán, or fānchuán; prompt on treasure ships, boats, vessels, fleets, navies, vehicles, watercraft, rigs, sails, or equivalents of any] (Clues include Malacca’s Undang-undang laut, the Maritime Trade Bureau, or Shìbósī, and the Maritime Silk Road Museum, which exhibits the wreck of the Nánhǎi One.)
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